Teaching Social Skills
A lack of social skills will get in the way of any individual’s academic achievements and relationships with peers and adults. Social skill instruction is best when embedded throughout the curriculum. However, there are times when an intervention plan, similar to a BIP, will best guide and reinforce the student to acquire a new, appropriate social skill.

One effective approach is to select a specific social skill teach and then model and practice it with the student in the most authentic manner possible. Continual attention and reinforcement by you, as the teacher, can result in the student replacing an old behavior with a new and more acceptable one.
 

Instructions

• The resources identify several social skills necessary for students: active listening, following directions, taking turns, speaking to others, getting someone’s attention. Pick one of these or one of your own choosing and plan a social skill lesson.
   
• Using the Fenty, Miller, and Lampi article as a guide, design the steps necessary to teach a specific social skill to an individual or a small group using the Teaching Social Skills Handout as a template.
   

Save this Assessment as “TeachingSocialSkills_firstinitiallastname.ppx” and submit it to the Gradebook by the end of Week 5.